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Author Topic:   Insect diversity falsifies the worldwide flood.
Mangetout
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Message 10 of 148 (39206)
05-07-2003 5:31 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Randy
08-29-2002 11:31 PM


Whilst I agree with the thrust of your statement (animal diversity is too great and many species are too sensitive to have survived); I question one or two of your facts;
Yellowjacket queens do not overwinter exclusively in holes in the ground; they will hide up in any sort of cool, dry nook (of which there would admittedly be rather few if the flood myth were true)
Mayflies are short-lived as adults, but the larval stage lives for almost a year; perhaps they could have survived this way in one of the thousands of barrels of essential drinking water that there wouldn't have been room for on board the ark.
As I said though, I quite agree with the thrust of your statement; there are just too many surviving organisms that would not have been able to maintain their life cycle; some of these are microscopic - some diseases, for example, cannot survive in small populations - the number of available hosts being exhausted by immunity or death.

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Mangetout
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Message 14 of 148 (39224)
05-07-2003 9:58 AM
Reply to: Message 11 by leetchd
05-07-2003 6:30 AM


quote:
...So Noah brought some
plants onboard.
with the bringing on of a few live plants comes some dirt...
It would have had to be more than 'some' or 'a few' - most plants (and their seeds) cannot survive prolonged inundation)
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Here in AK, we have what is called a Black Spruce Wasp with stingers over an inch long, these rugged insects manage to survive flooding that happens in the winter
I can't find any reference to an insect called 'Black Spruce Wasp' - presumably this is some kind of wood wasp and the stinger is actually an ovipositor - please could you identify the species, so we can have a look at its habits?
My prediction is that we will discover that it survives the flooding by a)overwintering above ground in tree bark fissures, b)overwintering as larvae inside the living sapwood or c)overwintering somewhere else(geographically).

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